Pakistan

DERA GHAZI KHAN: In the wake of the unusual rains, a flood alert has been issued for the Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur areas and emergency has been declared in both the districts to cope with the expected flood in hill torrents of the Sulaiman Range. Dera Ghazi Khan Deputy Commissioner Mazhar Iqbal Mahar told Dawn the disaster management department …

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank is expected to approve a loan of $100 million that will improve access to safe water and sanitation services in Kara­chi, and increase financial and operational performance of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB). A World Bank team will start appraising the project submitted by the Sindh government later this month while the executive board …

ISLAMABAD: The gap between male and female voters has climbed to 12.54 million, with just two districts of Punjab accounting for over 1m of the difference. An analysis of the latest district-wise statistics of voters released by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) shows that Lahore district continues to be in the lead with a gap of 616,945 between male …

BEIJING: Pakistan ranked third in the number of international students currently studying in China with 28,023 students, according to a statement issued by China’s Ministry of Education. South Korea ranked first with 50,600 students, followed by Thailand with 28,608, India with 23,198, and the United States with 20,996 A total of 492,185 international students from 196 countries and regions studied …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan’s lawyer in the Panama Papers leaks case and his party member Naeem Bukhari will assist the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as special prosecutor in all cases being tried against Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif in the Supreme Court. Mr Bukhari, who joined the PTI in June 2016, will also assist …

KARACHI: Mayor Wasim Akhtar said on Saturday that the city’s civic problems could be solved within a few years if the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation got its share of octroi from the provincial government. “The municipal administration of the city gets only Rs6 billion out of its total share of Rs14bn,” he said, adding that the rights of the people of …

SHANGLA: Adviser to the chief minister on education Ziaullah Bangash on Saturday denied calling teachers of the province unprofessional and incompetent. “Our teachers are protesting against me over social media propaganda but let me tell them that I’ve never called them unprofessional and incompetent. They’re very talented, qualified and professional and therefore, they deserved respect,” he told reporters here after …

PESHAWAR: The eye bank inaugurated at the public sector Khyber Teaching Hospital in the provincial capital five months ago has failed to cater to the patients needing cornea due to a lack of facilities. The doctors told Dawn that currently, a cornea was implanted in one patient’s eye due to storage issue at the eye bank. They, however, said if …

LODHRAN: Swinging into action after a clip surfaced on the social media showing a woman and her daughter kept in chains in a house, police on Saturday arrested her son and husband for chaining the two women at Kehror Pacca. The clip shared on Whatsapp showed a chained woman, later identified as Maqsood Mai, appealing to police to rescue her …

LAHORE: Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has removed Lahore DIG Investigation Dr Inaam Waheed from his post after he tried to ‘deceive’ Prime Minister Imran Khan in the case of a missing student of a private university. The chief minister also ordered Anti-Corruption Establishment Director General Ijaz Shah to complete inquiry into the matter and submit a report within one week. …